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The Buffalo Soldiers, Kenneth Estes Hall
The Buffalo Soldiers, Kenneth Estes Hall
Kenneth Estes Hall
Excerpt: Despite the great success of the Civil War epic Glory, the story of the black troops during and after the War is not well known. This lack of exposure to popular familiarity is especially true of the Buffalo Soldiers who served on the frontier in the late 19th century, chiefly but not exclusively in the Indian Wars.
Hegemony, Nostalgia, And The Archive In Contemporary Civil War Literature.Docx, Dallin S. Earl
Hegemony, Nostalgia, And The Archive In Contemporary Civil War Literature.Docx, Dallin S. Earl
Dallin Earl
In 1990 approximately fourteen million people tuned in to watch Ken Burn’s eleven-hour publicly televised film The Civil War—more than the entire population of the Confederate states at the time of secession (Cullen 9). In the last two decades we have seen a resurgence of interest in the Civil War following a lull from 1965 into the mid 1980’s (Gallagher 4). Recent interest in the Civil War indicates that we as a people are not finished talking about it, nor have its effects or consequences yet been fully teased out.America and Americans are very different since Civil …